Baked Shrimp Scampi
So I think my second favorite food behind cheese is butter. I love it on freshly toasted bread, dipping crab legs into melted butter – have you ever been to a summer fair where they grill fresh corn and then let you dip your corn in a vat of melted butter? Okay, I’ve just eaten and my mouth is watering again!
Hannah likes shrimp, but she likes tiny shrimp. You can see the comparison between ours and hers!
both were deveined, I just had to shell them
Big cost difference too! Hannah’s 1/4 pound cost $3.36. Mine and Tony’s pound and a half clocked in at $16.00! In hindsight, I could have reduced the amount of shrimp for us because I had a TON of shrimp leftover. I ended up rinsing the shrimp we didn’t eat and I think I am going to make shrimp tacos for my lunch tomorrow.
- 1.5 pounds (12 to 15 shrimp per pound) shrimp
- 3 tablespoons good olive oil
- 3 tablespoons white wine (I used Chardonnay)
- kosher salt and cracked black pepper to taste
- 1 stick (yep, you read that right!) butter, room temperature
- 4 minced cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2/3 cup panko bread crumbs (love these!)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Place the peeled shrimp in a mixing bowl and toss with olive oil, wine, salt and pepper. Set aside.
In small bowl mix butter with garlic, Italians seasoning, lemon juice, panko bread crumbs and salt and pepper. It will be like a butter paste.
Arrange shrimp in cast iron (or other ovensafe) dish. Put butter mixture evenly over shrimp. Bake for 9 minutes. Turn broiler on high and cook an additional 2-3 minutes until browned. Serve over pasta.
these shrimp were huge!
I don't know if you can tell in this picture, but the big shrimp were in a single layer, while I stacked Hannah's shrimp on the right hand side so they wouldn't get overcooked
Here’s how the dish looks after the broiler:
nice and crunchy!
On my plate with crushed red pepper added. I ended up with 5 ounces cooked pasta, 5 ounces cooked shrimp, the equivalent to 1 tablespoon of butter, the equivalent to 1 teaspoon olive oil and 2 tablespoons bread crumbs.
545 calories, 19 fat and 51 carbs
So my totals for the day:
- 1423 calories
- 50 fat
- 148 carbs
- 98 protein
- 14 fiber (not enough!)
A two hour American Idol is on right now! I have it on the DVR – I’ve found that two hour reality shows can really be seen in about 40 minutes when you zip through the commercials. And I don’t think Tony can handle two hours of AI!!
Off to relax – see you tomorrow!
Oh my gosh, super tasty! And shrimp tacos sounds awesome!
mmmm, i can almost taste the crunch!
What a delicious dinner! I totally prefer the JUMBO shrimp!
Oh my goodness! That looks so good and not very high in calories either. Thanks so much for sharing!
WOW that looks fantastic, and those shrimps are GINORMOUS!
The book came! Thank you so much, again!
Mmm..dinner looks delicious as usual!
Wow, I don’t like shrimp but that looks really delicious!
that looks sooooo good! i miss baked shrimp!
What a great dinner
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Danny is the next American Idol. Anyone care to make it interesting?
yum yum!!!!! SUPER!!!
YUM! YUM! YUM! Thank you for sharing!
Cassie, I am going to agree with you and say Danny too. I chose Fantasia from the beginning, Taylor Hicks from the beginning, and Clay Aiken from the beginning (although he took second)
B, your dinner looks awesome!
mmmm…..yummy!
Yummy! I love shrimp so so much. My mum is going out of town for a few weeks so I’m house sitting for her and I know that she’s got a bag of shrimp in the freezer that she’s forgotten about… I can’t wait hehe.
That looks so good! I’m allergic to shrimp but it used to be my favorite food so I am jealous!!
i’m so confused – what kind of pasta did you use? I thought 5 oz pasta is 500 calories??? when I add up your calories of the components in your dinner I don’t understand how it’s only 545 cals, if so thats amazing!
Sweet and Fit – I weighed my pasta AFTER it was cooked – 5 ounces of cooked pasta is:
224 calories, 1.3 fat, 43 carbs, 2.6 fiber, 8.2 protein
5 ounces of DRY pasta is:
527 calories, 2.1 fat, 106 carbs, 4.5 fiber and 18 protein.
Hope that helps!
I love shrimp scampi – and those panko bread crumbs are making me drool!
haha – I feel like an idiot….thanks for explaining =)
My mouth was watering reading this! Everything in here always looks fantastic!
So glad I stumbled on your site. This looks like something my mom makes. I like your technique. I don’t think she uses wine but I am going to suggest it to her and I’ll try this too!